DALEKS

Dominic

As a kid these were my bete noire ..........I was obsessively scared of them and they were the stuff of many a nightmare
Even in adulthood I have still had the occaisional  bad dream about them.
 Of course, as a 5 year old it doesn't occur to you that if you ran upstairs that they would be met by an insurmountable obstacle, or indeed, that if your parents invested in a fashionable (for the time ) shagpile carpet for the hall that it would really fuck them up !
 Who else lives in fear of the metallic acne ridden automatons with death-ray arms that look like kitchen egg-whisks ?
 OR other childhood fears ......do tell .....

Richardj

I never had a problem with Daleks, Cybermen etc, it was the giant green glowing maggots in 'The Green Death' that terrified me.

Brize

Dominic said:

 Of course, as a 5 year old it doesn't occur to you that if you ran upstairs that they would be met by an insurmountable obstacle

EL-E-VATE!

Ravenous

I was terrified by the various baddies Christopher Lee used to play in those old 60s films.  (I think he's brill now of course.)

bloodandtears

Weeping Angels.... followed by the Silence... great modern baddies

Dominic

Funny you mention Weeping Angels......my daughter was absolutely petrified of those

cruxiform

If we're talking very young, it was Parsley the lion in The Herbs. Don't know why but my dad said I'd cry when Parsley appeared on screen.

octatonic

Dominic said:

Funny you mention Weeping Angels......my daughter was absolutely petrified of those

So is my wife.

I'm all tough and manly so the only thing I fear is fear itself.
And heights.

DiscoStu

Moomins used to weird me out. 

Fretwired

Never scared of the Daleks .. the Cybermen with the cloth masks (they are coming back) were scary as were the Autons - shop dummies coming to life. And the Yeti, although that was more the first story I saw set in a dimly lit London Underground network with lots of foam and soldiers from UNIT. And the story with the giant Devil and the gargoyles on a church which came to life and killed people.

ESchap

For me it was the Yeti that required watching from behind the sofa ....never found the Dalek or Cybermen alarming at all, though Davros .. my 5-10 year old self was not so sure about him ....

Dominic

Ah ,well Davros was a Dalek Overlord 

proggy

I actually liked Daleks when I was a kid, and still do really. Cybermen scared me though and so did Lord Charles the ventriloquist's doll, and still does a bit.

Nikko

Camping.

I sneakily watched Friday the 13th on VHS when I was 6 or 7 years old. Didn't like camping for a while after that.

RandallFlagg

Yep, I recall an episode, the last in a Tom Baker series, just as he was wrapping up where they suddenly burst through a brick wall next to him and scared the life out of me, it was a set up for the next series as they were to be his nemesis.

It really got to me at the time.

Dominic

proggy said:

I actually liked Daleks when I was a kid, and still do really. Cybermen scared me though and so did Lord Charles the ventriloquist's doll, and still does a bit.

CHUCKY !

Dopesick

Prince Vigo in Ghostbusters II scared the shit out of me as a child.

Actually he still does.

proggy

Dominic said:

proggy said:

I actually liked Daleks when I was a kid, and still do really. Cybermen scared me though and so did Lord Charles the ventriloquist's doll, and still does a bit.

CHUCKY !

Yeah, he's another scary little fucker. I'm really not comfortable with dolls for some reason.

Bridgehouse

proggy said:

I'm really not comfortable with dolls for some reason.

If you let a bit of the air out you can make them more comfortable....

proggy

Bridgehouse said:

proggy said:

I'm really not comfortable with dolls for some reason.

If you let a bit of the air out you can make them more comfortable....

Thanks, that's a top tip. I bought a cardboard one but it just wasn't cut out for that sort of thing.

Bridgehouse

proggy said:

Bridgehouse said:

proggy said:

I'm really not comfortable with dolls for some reason.

If you let a bit of the air out you can make them more comfortable....

Thanks, that's a top tip. I bought a cardboard one but it just wasn't cut out for that sort of thing.

The cardboard ones dig in too much - and you don't get a good 'o' face on them...